Summary

This chapter was about the licensing of cloud platforms themselves and the software used within them. We have learned that there are different types of agreements for the usage of cloud services: purely consumption-based, commitment-based, and limited agreements, which are mainly used for trial periods.

We have seen that license agreements for software might change if we deploy software on cloud resources and that it might be worthwhile to implement SAM. Since licenses and contracts can become very complex, some companies decide to outsource the task of managing licenses to third-party brokers.

In the last section, we learned how we should set up enterprise enrollment in Azure, looked at organizations and accounts in AWS, and explored organizations, folders, and projects for the potential segmentation of billing in GCP. These enrollments come with a specific hierarchy that we need to deploy, but we have also seen that these hierarchical models in the main public clouds...